Adoption
22 technologies, three public signals, recomputed every day. Installs show who is actually using something; Wikipedia and Hacker News show who is paying attention. When the two split, that is the story.
The last seven days
Coding agents outrun attention as installs plateau Claude Code is today's biggest mover: up 2 places to No. 3, Hacker News stories at 1.52× the four-week pace. Claude Code Up 2 to No. 3 · 1.23× SpaceX Starship still No. 1, day 8 Modular hardware wins as SMR interest spikes five ranks Small modular reactors is today's biggest mover: up 5 places to No. 7, Wikipedia readers at 1.12× the four-week pace. Small modular reactors Up 5 to No. 7 · 1.12× SpaceX Starship still No. 1, day 7 Claude Code climbs as AI coding tools race Claude Code is today's biggest mover: up 4 places to No. 6, Hacker News stories at 1.29× the four-week pace. Claude Code Up 4 to No. 6 · 1.18× SpaceX Starship still No. 1, day 6 MCP becomes the universal adapter for AI's tool era Model Context Protocol is today's biggest mover: up 3 places to No. 7, installs at 1.23× the four-week pace. Model Context Protocol Up 3 to No. 7 · 1.14× SpaceX Starship still No. 1, day 5 Bun runtime jumps four spots as space attention saturates Bun runtime is today's biggest mover: up 4 places to No. 11, installs at 1.19× the four-week pace. Bun runtime Up 4 to No. 11 · 1.1× SpaceX Starship still No. 1, day 4 Vibe coding climbs as AI agents tighten system controls Vibe coding is today's biggest mover: up 4 places to No. 11, Wikipedia readers at 1.17× the four-week pace. Vibe coding Up 4 to No. 11 · 1.11× SpaceX Starship still No. 1, day 3 Solid-state batteries jump six spots as energy storage demand accelerates Solid-state batteries is today's biggest mover: up 6 places to No. 5, Wikipedia readers at 1.25× the four-week pace. Solid-state batteries Up 6 to No. 5 · 1.25× SpaceX Starship still No. 1, day 2
Rewind: the board, day by day
Press play or drag the dial to watch momentum move across the last 11 days. Each bar is one trend; 1× means no change.
Coding agents outrun attention as installs plateau
5 of 21 trends are climbing; SpaceX Starship leads at 1.38×
Momentum is a typical day (median) of the last 7 divided by a typical day of the 28 before, averaged across every signal with enough data. 1× means no change. Rings mark each signal.
Data through npm 10/05, Wikipedia 10/07, HN 10/07. Source: npm downloads API, Wikimedia pageviews, Hacker News search.
5 of 7 developer tools are being installed faster than they are being read about
Across: attention momentum (Wikipedia readers and Hacker News stories). Up: install momentum (npm). Both on log scales; the 1× lines split the corners.
Data through npm 10/05, Wikipedia 10/07, HN 10/07. Source: npm downloads API, Wikimedia pageviews, Hacker News search.
SpaceX Starship draws the most Wikipedia readers against its own normal: 1.38× over the last week
Each cell is one day's readers divided by that trend's four-week typical day. Brighter runs hot, darker runs cold.
Data through npm 10/05, Wikipedia 10/07, HN 10/07. Source: Wikimedia pageviews API, user agents only.
OpenAI Codex installs are 116× a year ago; 9 of 10 tools at least doubled
Average daily npm installs, week by week for a year. Each panel has its own scale; the corner figure compares the last four weeks with the same four weeks a year earlier.
Data through npm 10/05, Wikipedia 10/07, HN 10/07. Source: npm downloads API.
Every number
| SpaceX Starship | Space | 1.38× | Climbing | – | – | 1,901 | 1.38× | 0.1 | 0.23×* | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passkeys | Web platform | 1.3× | Climbing | 1.1M | 1.3× | 93 | 1.05×* | 0.1 | 0.4×* | 0 |
| Claude Code | AI coding | 1.23× | Climbing | 2.2M | 0.99× | – | – | 9.6 | 1.52× | 0 |
| AI API SDKs | AI agents | 1.19× | Climbing | 21M | 1.19× | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| OpenAI Codex | AI coding | 1.18× | Climbing | 3.9M | 1.11× | 110 | 2.8×* | 5.3 | 1.24× | 0 |
| Model Context Protocol | AI agents | 1.14× | Steady | 12M | 1.27× | 1,663 | 1.09× | 7.3 | 1.06× | 0 |
| WebGPU | Web platform | 1.14× | Steady | 1.7M | 1.17× | 142 | 1.12× | 1.3 | 1.56×* | 0 |
| Starlink | Space | 1.1× | Steady | – | – | 2,195 | 1.1× | 0.7 | 1.54×* | 0 |
| Small modular reactors | Energy | 1.09× | Steady | – | – | 510 | 1.09× | 0.1 | n/a* | 0 |
| AI agents | AI agents | 1.05× | Steady | 782k | 1.26× | 962 | 0.81× | 13 | 1.15× | 4 |
| Heat pumps | Energy | 1.05× | Steady | – | – | 502 | 1.05× | 0.0 | 0×* | 1 |
| Bun runtime | Web platform | 1.03× | Steady | 708k | 1.08× | 240 | 0.98× | 0.7 | 0.83×* | 0 |
| Solid-state batteries | Energy | 1.03× | Steady | – | – | 424 | 1.03× | 0.0 | 0×* | 0 |
| Gemini CLI | AI coding | 1.02× | Steady | 66k | 1.02× | – | – | 0.0 | n/a* | 0 |
| Local LLMs | AI agents | 1× | Steady | 192k | 1.13× | 634 | 0.89× | 0.4 | 0.63×* | 0 |
| eVTOL air taxis | Space | 0.86× | Cooling | – | – | 169 | 0.86× | 0.0 | n/a* | 0 |
| Vibe coding | AI coding | 0.83× | Cooling | – | – | 1,755 | 1.13× | 0.7 | 0.61× | 1 |
| Quantum computing | Devices | 0.83× | Cooling | – | – | 1,700 | 0.93× | 2.3 | 0.74× | 0 |
| Humanoid robots | Robots | 0.82× | Cooling | – | – | 301 | 0.82× | 0.9 | 1.14×* | 0 |
| Smart glasses | Devices | 0.72× | Cooling | – | – | 153 | 0.72× | 0.7 | 1.05×* | 1 |
| Robotaxis | Robots | 0.71× | Cooling | – | – | 175 | 0.71× | 0.9 | 2.2×* | 1 |
| Vehicle-to-grid | Energy | n/a | Not enough data | – | – | 61 | 0.98×* | 0.0 | 0×* | 0 |
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Method and sources
Every trend gets up to three free, daily signals. Installs: npm registry downloads for the packages named on each trend page (developer adoption; it counts CI and mirrors too, so it measures direction, not people). Attention: English Wikipedia readers per day, human agents only, and Hacker News stories with the term in the title. For each signal we divide a typical day (the median) of the last 7 complete days by a typical day of the 28 days before. Medians keep one launch-day spike from carrying a whole week; both windows are whole weeks, so weekend dips sit equally in both. Momentum is the geometric mean of the signals that clear a minimum base. npm reports some days as zero for every package at once; we treat those as missing.
The column is drafted by a free language model from the day's computed facts only, and is published only if every number in it matches those facts; otherwise the computed paragraphs stand alone. Theme labels come from Jev (or its Cloudflare Clef fallback, as noted) choosing from a fixed list of ten.
Stages: Breakout 1.5× and up, Climbing 1.15×, Steady 0.87× to 1.15×, Cooling below. Raw data: /api/trends/2026-10-08.json.